Install Wince 5.0 Pna
Hilke Mcnally
i have Colibri ixm6 with colibri evaluation board v3.2 and i have windows embedded compact 2013 installed in it. For my new project, i need a customized os which contains only several drivers and my application alone. i searched and found that the source code of wince is not available and they provide bsp and workspaces for customization and to build a new image.I have bsp and workspace.But i cant find any tutorials or demos of working with bsp and workspace. so i need to know the procedure (how to open a bsp and editing os)for working with bsp and os image creation through vs2015.
Please understand that this is not Toradex related. I also agree with the first statement of @alex.tx: We recommend to customize the Toradex image with configuration settings, rather than building your own image.
Platform Builder is quite a complex tool. If you already struggle with the installation, you will run into much more complex problems later on.
I want to develop a os which has only several drivers and a particular application alone and it should not have any other applications including explorer. I am having troubles in setting up workspace for wince os creation because the windows embedded compact 2013 is not available currently in microsoft website.
First, "installing" CE depends on the bootloader in use. You need to put an NK.BIN wherever the bootloader is looking. You might be able to use diskprep to make the USB device bootable and run the image right from it. Maybe it has internal storage and uses loadcepc to load NK.bin off of that. Those are the two ways the Vortex86 devices I've used operate, but which yours uses we can only guess at.
Windows CE is not a simple CD you can install from like the regular editions of Windows you can buy from a shop. It is designed to be a highly configurable*, customisable, very flexible operating system.
It has to be "built" for each target. If you have a MSDN subscription (I forget the level needed), you can download a disk called "Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 - DVD (English)" (It is under development tools, I can't quickly see a way to deeplink in). This contains a tool which is called "Platform Builder". I have not run this in many years, but I do not think it has changed.
Using platform builder, you can choose from MANY templates - from a ip phone, set top box, down to full desktop and completely customise many aspects of Windows CE. You will need to target the X86 CPU and most likely will need to find/acquire/build drivers for certain hardware such as the touch screen.
Once built, by default, it installs a trial key which allows the built image to run for a short while (I think 30 or 60 days... but that is off the top of my head). In order to buy a full licence, you need to go to a Windows Embedded Distributor - and for just one unit... you may have a little trouble.
Personally, You may be best off sticking Google Maps (if you have a 3g dongle/internet connection) or Microsoft Autoroute (I think it is) as it has a complete database built in - and is GPS compatible.
As for other aspects, on X86 hardware, it should be quite fast, but do not expect it to be as fast as on dedicated Windows CE devices - many of them are purpose built with flash memory, and BSP (Motherboards that are deeply linked to the OS) for maximum speed.
If you are looking to use your laptop as a GPS navigation system check out the free GPSDrive app which runs on Linux, or alternatively Google Maps, at least on Chrome, will update its location continually based on wifi/cell phone towers, making it easy to turn a laptop into a poor man's navigation system.
As far as I remember from playing with my built-in car multimedia system, the CAB driver installation on Windows CE is pretty straightforward. You have to copy the driver container to WinCE storage (Applications, for example) and run the CAB file via simple double-click that will trigger the installation. Have you tried that? Does it work?
Null modem cable might be the problem. I seem to remember there being a special Activesync version of a null modem cable. It had an extra pin active that alerted the PC that something connected to the serial port.
I just checked the specs for a Jett XL and it says it has a mini USB. There are two different types of mini-USBs, so pay attention, but a matching cable would be like $10 at Walmart or Radio Shack. Just get a mini at one end, and regular USB at the other end, so you can plug it onto your computer.
> I just checked the specs for a Jett XL and it says it has a mini USB. There are two different types of mini-USBs, so pay attention, but a matching cable would be like $10 at Walmart or Radio Shack. Just get a mini at one end, and regular USB at the other end, so you can plug it onto your computer.
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> 9-pin serial is old technology and the operating systems are not doing a great job of supporting it, so switching to USB will save you some headaches.
WinCE devices do NOT unzip or install directly from the EXE files. You need to unzip the files on your PC, then execute the *.exe for your device on your PC, ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center will copy the CAB file to your device. Then it will launch the install of the CAB file. You will get a prompt for the PC to connect to your device. Let it try, then continue with the install, you may need to hit cancel. The setup may seem incomplete. But it does do enough of what we need. It will create a folder on your pc with CAB file. This is the install for your WinCE device.
This section assumes that you have in front of the method in accordance with the USB driver installed and the development board is set to NOR flash to start the system update and installed NAND flash, please set to start, set the method please refer to previous chapters.
When uploading is complete, BIOS will format the Nand Flash. Then create the partition and upload the WinCE in order. When uploading is complete, the system will start automatically. Serial port message in all procedure is below.
I recently inherited a cheap EzBook PC and decided it might be fun to throw Ubuntu on it. I have a USB all setup but for the life of me can't get it to boot from USB! I've looked online and can't seem to find the motherboard details anywhere to access the BIOS and more applications won't work on Windows CE so I'm stuck. Is there an obscure Windows CE installer out there? It's really frustrating when I can't get to the BIOS - and I don't have a manual.
There is no BIOS on that machine because it's not an IBM compatible PC. It's an ARM device. Even if you could get the usb to boot, the PC versions of Ubuntu (i386 and x64) wouldn't work because the chip is completely different. You'll need an arm build, which luckily for you is almost done:
As Martin already pointed out, EzBookPc is based on an ARM Processor. Therefore it's a prerequisite to install a special Release for ARM processors. AFAIK there is no guide on how to install this on an EZBook PC. I think this is a very challenging and interesting but not easy task. Another point to start from when it comes to distributions for ARM processors may be Anytux.org. Good look :)
Once unzipped go into the folder. Inside you will see a second folder called script. Copy this folder to the root of your SD card Note: You need to actually copy the second folder "script" to the root directory not it's contents
You will see a screen that says preparing upgrade. It will re-format the internal drive and partition it for android. Once the process is finished you will be prompted to remove the SD card. Remove the SD card and wait for the unit to shut down.
I don't know about this netbook specifically, but there are a lot of 7 inch mini laptop clones. It depends on the CPU if it can run ubuntu. The VIA VT8500 based ones can run a version of Debian, so you should be able to upgrade them to ubuntu. If the CPU is a VIA WM8505 however, only an Android version is known to work (gives DMA errors with regular Linux).
Curiously however I've just discovered some other WinCE 6.0 netbooks advertised with Ubuntu support. However the page doesn't say much more than that: -345450693/7-inch-Mini-ubuntu-netbook-support-WIFI.html (Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with that shop.)
Using the Toradex Easy Installer is the recommended way to install Windows Embedded Compact images onto any Colibri iMX6 or Apalis iMX6 module. Only WinCe release V1.2b2 and newer are supported by the Easy Installer.
To update to image V1.3b4 using the Update Tool you'll need to use the update tool V7.6.0 or newer, because the format of compressed images has been changed. Make sure to update both the image and the bootloader without a reboot inbetween.
launch it and select the eboot.imx file contained in the zip you downloaded. If you plan to use rev.1.2 and the new SPL bootloader you'll have to select eboot-colibri.img or eboot-apalis.img, depending on the module format you are using.
If you are already running at least the 1.0beta6 image you may use update tool to update the existing image.If a bootloader is provided in the download package you must update both the image and the bootloader (this require two separate operations in the update tool) before rebooting your device.If you are running 1.0beta6 there is an issue with the update tool version that is included in the image, so you should run the updatetool version included in the 1.0 image download (there are two executables, updatetool_ce7.exe for Windows Embedded Compact 7 and updatetool_ce8 for Windows Embedded Compact 2013).We also sometime experiences some issues with USB devices when the system is rebooted using the coldboot option of update tool, an hardware reset is recommended to avoid those problems.If you are updating to version 1.1beta2 please consider that the "output enabling polarity" (oep) parameter of the display configuration has been changed to match the behaviour it has on our other modules. This means that you should change its value from 0 to 1 or viceversa to keep the display working if you rely on this signal. If you are using default display configuration you can just clean the registry to keep default behaviour.If you are updating to version 1.1beta4 please consider that you need to clear registry or to change those registry entries to be able to access flashdisk and sd card
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